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Anthony Chianese

Anthony Chianese

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry , 305 Wynn Hall
I grew up in Bethlehem, Conn., and went on to obtain a BA in 2001 from Drew University, conducting research with Barbara Petrack. After my graduate studies at Yale University under the direction of Robert Crabtree, I  earned my PhD in chemistry in 2005. After one year as an NRC postdoctoral research associate with Mike Gagné, I accepted my current position as assistant professor here at Colgate in 2006.

My research is conducted through the Chianese group, in the Department of Chemistry, which focuses on the field of transition-metal homogeneous catalysis. In the Chianese group, undergraduate students learn techniques for organic and inorganic synthesis, including the handling of air-sensitive compounds. We rely on multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography to characterize new products, and students gain direct experience with these methods.

Many students in the group have had the opportunity to co-author publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Learn more about the Chianese group:

Degree

 BA Drew University 2001; MS, PhD Yale University, 2005

Teaching Experience

 CHEM 101: General Chemistry I
CHEM 102: General Chemistry II
CHEM 212: Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM 381: Practical Quantitative Analysis
CHEM 387: Structure and Analysis: Small-Molecule X-Ray Crystallography
CHEM 413: Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory
CHEM 415: Organometallic Chemistry
CORE 102/FSEM 122: Molecules, Energy, and the Environment

Specialities

 Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry

Interests

 Organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, reaction mechanisms

Publications

 From the Chianese group at Colgate University:

Chianese, A. R.‡; Shaner, S. E.; Tendler, J. A.*; Pudalov, D. M.*; Shopov, D. Y.*; Rogers, S. L.*; Mo, A.* "Iridium Complexes of Bulky CCC-Pincer N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Steric Control of Coordination Number and Catalytic Alkene Isomerization," Organometallics, 2012, ASAP. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om300468d

Chianese, A. R.‡; Mo, A.*, Lampland, N. L.*, Swartz, R. L.*, and Bremer, P. T.* "Iridium Complexes of CCC-Pincer N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis and Catalytic C-H Functionalization," Organometallics, 2010, 29, 3019-3026. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om100302g

Chianese, A. R.‡; Rogers, S. L.*; Al-Gattas, H.* "Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Carbazoles from N-(2-Halophenyl)-2,6-diisopropylphenylanilines via C–C Cleavage," Tetrahedron Lett., 2010, 51, 2241-2243. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.02.098

Chianese, A. R.‡; Bremer, P. T.*; Wong, C.*; Reynes, R. J.* "Rigid, Sterically Diverse N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Pyridine Chelates: Synthesis, Mild Palladation, and Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitution," Organometallics, 2009, 28, 5244-5252. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om900554c

Chianese, A. R.‡; Mo, A.*; Datta, D.* "Flexible, Bowl-Shaped N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Substrate Specificity in Iridium-Catalyzed Ketone Hydrosilylation," Organometallics, 2009, 28, 465-472. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om800878m

- Undergraduate co-authors are marked with an asterisk.

Chianese's publications with the Gagné group (UNC):

Chianese, A. R.‡; Lee, S. J.; Gagné, M. R. "Electrophilic Activation of Alkenes by Platinum(II): So Much More Than a Slow Version of Palladium(II)," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 4042-4059; Angew. Chem., 2007, 119, 4118-4136. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114250795/ABSTRACT

Tarselli, M. A.; Chianese, A. R.; Gagné, M. R.‡ "Gold(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cycloisomerization of Ene-allenes into Vinyl-cyclohexenes," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 6670-6673. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114297603/ABSTRACT

Chianese's publications with the Crabtree group (Yale):

Leung, C. H.; Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Complexation of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHC) to Transition Metals by Transmetallation from Silver-NHC Complexes," Inorg. Synth., 2010, in press.

Voutchkova, A. M.; Appelhans, L. N.; Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Disubstituted Imidazolium-2-Carboxylates as Efficient Precursors to N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Ru, Rh, Ir and Pd," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 17624-17625. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja056625k

Li, X. W.; Chianese, A. R.; Vogel, T.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Stable Iridium Hydrides as Active Catalysts for Intramolecular Alkyne Hydroalkoxylation and Hydroamination," Organic Letters 2005, 7, 5437-5440. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol052186i

Appelhans, L. N.; Zuccaccia, D.; Kovacevic, A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Macchioni, A.; Clot, E.; Eisenstein, O.‡; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "An Anion-Dependent Switch in Selectivity Results from a Change of C-H Activation Mechanism in the Reaction of an Imidazolium Salt With IrH5(PPh3)2," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16299-16311. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja055317j

Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Axially Chiral Bidentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands Derived from BINAM: Rhodium and Iridium Complexes in Asymmetric Ketone Hydrosilylation," Organometallics 2005, 24, 4432-4436. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om050323%2B

Chianese, A. R.; Zeglis, B. M.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Unexpected Oxidative C-C Cleavage in the Metallation of 2-Substituted Imidazolium Salts to Give N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes," Chem. Commun. 2004, 2176-2177. http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/CC/article.asp?doi=b409672j

Chianese, A. R.; Kovacevic, A.; Zeglis, B. M.; Faller, J. W.‡; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Abnormal C5-Bound N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Extremely Strong Electron Donor Ligands and their Iridium(I) and Iridium(III) Complexes," Organometallics 2004, 23, 2461-2468. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om049903h

Mata, J. A.; Chianese, A. R.; Miecznikowski, J. R.; Poyatos, M.; Peris, E.; Faller, J. W.‡; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Reactivity Differences in the Syntheses of Chelating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rhodium are Ascribed to Ligand Anisotropy," Organometallics 2004, 23, 1253-1263. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om034240%2B

Chianese, A. R.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Pincer and Chelate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Rh, Ir, and Pd: Synthetic Routes, Dynamics, Catalysis, Abnormal Binding, and Counterion Effects," In Activation and Functionalization of C-H Bonds; Goldberg, K. I., Goldman, A. S., Eds.; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2004; Vol. 885, pp 169-183. http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~agoldman/TOC_ACS_Symposium_Series_885.htm

Chianese, A. R.; Li, X. W.; Janzen, M. C.; Faller, J. W.; Crabtree, R. H.‡ "Rhodium and Iridium Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes via Transmetalation: Structure and Dynamics," Organometallics 2003, 22, 1663-1667. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om021029%2B